Re: [coreboot] qemu-armv7: memcpy to ROMSTAGE_BASE

2014-08-16 Thread ron minnich
The ROMSTAGE on ARM is expected to be SRAM. When you know the SRAM address for a given mainboard, you need to set it up in Kconfig for *just* that mainboard. Nice work, I think you're getting close! ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] earliest running code with qemu

2014-08-12 Thread ron minnich
I'm sure it could run were someone to implement it. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] qemu-armv7: code execution out of RAM or ROM using latest QEMU

2014-08-11 Thread ron minnich
So, if you comment that one line out, do things work for you? Just double checking. ron On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Piotr Król pietrush...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:15:32AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: There is no coreboot gdb support There is some gdb support in

[coreboot] coreboot bof at ELC Europe oct. 13-15

2014-08-11 Thread ron minnich
got accepted. See you there. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

[coreboot] global changes and checking programs

2014-08-11 Thread ron minnich
There's lots of really nice work going on with clang and other tools. I just want to put out a word of caution, based on what I'm seeing. A number of these tests are going in with global changes, no testing, and in some examples, no clear improvement or bug fix, e.g. remove all blank lines at the

Re: [coreboot] qemu-armv7: code execution out of RAM or ROM using latest QEMU

2014-08-11 Thread ron minnich
:42AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: So, if you comment that one line out, do things work for you? Just double checking. Comment is not enough to make it work. VE_NORFLASHALIAS has to be -1, then it works for me. So patch for QEMU is: diff --git a/hw/arm/vexpress.c b/hw/arm/vexpress.c index a88732c

Re: [coreboot] qemu-armv7: code execution out of RAM or ROM using latest QEMU

2014-08-11 Thread ron minnich
So what this is saying is that we expect the ROM for coreboot to start at 64K. I hope this makes sense to you. Does this conflict with some qemu expectation, do you know? ron On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Piotr Król pietrush...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:51:16PM -0700, ron

Re: [coreboot] qemu-armv7: code execution out of RAM or ROM using latest QEMU

2014-08-11 Thread ron minnich
Sorry, in other words, how much ROM are you setting up on that qemu board? The 'execute outside ram or rom' is usually a jump to an IP that qemu does not recognize as ROM/RAM. I suspect our emulator is assuming SRAM in there somewhere, can you check? Certainly we depend on SRAM on the real

Re: [coreboot] qemu-armv7: code execution out of RAM or ROM using latest QEMU

2014-08-10 Thread ron minnich
You can't assume much of anything. That commit seems not that harmful. What would help is if you tell us more about when the problem happens. There's just not enough info in your note, but I'd love to try to help. Thanks! ron On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Piotr Król pietrush...@gmail.com

Re: [coreboot] why is firmware 32 bit as opposed to 64 bit

2014-08-10 Thread ron minnich
One of the reasons Im working to implement paging for 32-bit mode is for our eventual change to 64-bit mode for coreboot. It's gone on the back burner for a bit as I'm doing a few other coreboot things first. I'd love to have the help, if you have time. ron On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 1:02 PM,

Re: [coreboot] why is firmware 32 bit as opposed to 64 bit

2014-08-10 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:48 PM, The Gluglug i...@gluglug.org.uk wrote: What about 32-bit-only machines, or people that want to use a 32-bit OS? well, we won't compile 64-bit firmware for 32-bit machines, if that helps. See: ARM v8 vs. v7. And a 32-bit OS can run on a machine with 64-bit

Re: [coreboot] why is firmware 32 bit as opposed to 64 bit

2014-08-10 Thread ron minnich
I understand the arguments. It's worth remembering that coreboot has to date run on 5 different architectures. 4 of those used paging. The x86 has always been the outlier. Lack of paging has costs not discussed much. Rmodules would be a lot simpler if we had paging. We could make the code space

[coreboot] good news on video init

2014-08-08 Thread ron minnich
Some of furquan's very fine work from -- yegads! -- a year ago is just now coming upstream. Take a look. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] high-pitched whine on x60/t60

2014-07-22 Thread ron minnich
These power supply issues are quite fun, like other things. The mistake would be to say that, because there is noise, coreboot is wrong and vendor firmware is right. It can be far more subtle than that. It could even be the case that coreboot is right, the vendor code is wrong, and the correction

Re: [coreboot] high-pitched whine on x60/t60

2014-07-22 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: ron minnich wrote: wrong right It's way too early for that Ron. At this point nobody even understands wtf is causing the problem. Someone competent needs to research that before a discussion about the solution. I'm

[coreboot] update your bios

2014-07-15 Thread ron minnich
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Re: [coreboot] BayleyBay FSP booting

2014-07-10 Thread ron minnich
we had this recently in another context. A log would be useful. It will try to find a bounce buffer if your payload will end up replacing parts of coreboot. What is your base/size for coreboot and for the payload? ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] bios for ATOM E38XX

2014-07-10 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:11 AM, benjamin nakache bnaka...@nolam.com wrote: Hello , When will support the new Atom E38XX Would you or someone from your company like to help? Note: This message and any attachment hereto is intended solely for the use of the designated recipient(s)

[coreboot] microcode updates

2014-07-08 Thread ron minnich
I had not seen this, maybe you all have, but: http://inertiawar.com/microcode/ ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] microcode updates

2014-07-08 Thread ron minnich
. On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:27 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: I had not seen this, maybe you all have, but: http://inertiawar.com/microcode/ ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot

Re: [coreboot] microcode updates

2014-07-08 Thread ron minnich
no, that is not early enough on some CPUs. ron On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:20 AM, yhlu yingha...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:39 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: you can no longer update microcode after the kernel boots (on modern Intel CPUs). It has to happen

Re: [coreboot] microcode updates

2014-07-08 Thread ron minnich
recent chipsets. Yes, you might get it to boot. That's almost worse than having it fail. ron On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Scott Duplichan sc...@notabs.org wrote: ron minnich [mailto:rminn...@gmail.com] wrote: ]you can no longer update microcode after the kernel boots ](on modern Intel

Re: [coreboot] microcode updates

2014-07-08 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: I think very specific details would strengthen this argument. I'm not saying that the argument is wrong, I'm saying that it would be great to learn about specific experience. you are absolutely right. I'm just trying to

Re: [coreboot] microcode updates

2014-07-08 Thread ron minnich
Thanks for the good examples, Patrick. So I'll say it one more time: while I understand the concerns about the microcode blob, and I appreciate the sincerity of those who want to build coreboot images that don't have them, I think it's a huge mistake to take that path on almost anything made in

Re: [coreboot] F2A85-M: Chassis Fan Not Working

2014-07-06 Thread ron minnich
So Rudolf, this just takes the control loop out of the picture and always enables the fan? This stuff always confuses me. ron On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Rudolf Marek r.ma...@assembler.cz wrote: Hi I think this is the problem: change the following line in the devicetree.cb register

Re: [coreboot] PAE status/ 8Gb of ram on X60

2014-07-06 Thread ron minnich
Charles, just checking, you know the deal, right? Room at the top of the physical address space is saved off for PCI. Hence memory in that range is not addressable. Chips that could hoist memory in the, e.g., 3g-4g range up above 4G have been around since before the i945. Anybody know for sure

Re: [coreboot] Request for Intel Haswell info

2014-07-03 Thread ron minnich
as a first pass, did you burn coreboot for the wrong board just to see if you got anything al all on serial? I just went through this process on a different board and that was my starting point, as it is for many. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] source of coreboot boot log for board-status database

2014-07-03 Thread ron minnich
I think it's fine. The more info we have on a given board the better, and the boot log seems to be of value to people, so why not? ron On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Martin Roth martin.r...@se-eng.com wrote: I've added a routine to grab the boot log for the board-status database from a

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] board_status: Add serial log to `serial_console.txt`

2014-07-03 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:18 PM, David Hendricks dhend...@google.com wrote: Necromancing this thread... Sage has a patch to *optionally* use a serial console log in board_status.sh: http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6094/ Earlier objections to such an approach seemed to stem from either: -

Re: [coreboot] Success in replicating a fast boot time to the browser on a x60

2014-07-02 Thread ron minnich
This is great. We've gotten an acer c720 down to 1.7 seconds from power button to chromeos login screen. I've always wanted to get it done in under a second. I hope you can get there! ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Request for Intel Haswell info

2014-07-02 Thread ron minnich
As always, when doing a new board, get a system that is known to work with coreboot and has your chipset in it. You should get several (never just one!) of the haswell chromebooks, build coreboot, make sure you can make it all work, then try the port to your board. ron On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at

Re: [coreboot] F2A85-M: Chassis Fan Not Working

2014-07-02 Thread ron minnich
Double check: the chassis fan turns off. Sometimes, that's correct behavior until things get warm, and the fan should turn on. So you're sure the turning off is the wrong thing to do? In some cases it's desirable for a chassis fan to spin up, then turn off, then turn on again as needed, all under

Re: [coreboot] Request for Intel Haswell info

2014-07-02 Thread ron minnich
a Chromebook wearing Coreboot and Haswell based. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:09 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: As always, when doing a new board, get a system that is known to work

Re: [coreboot] Request for Intel Haswell info

2014-07-02 Thread ron minnich
/merged in. Also works for the nearly-identical HP ChromeBox (zako). I can throw my branch up on github in the meantime if would be useful, but that's where I'd recommend starting (vs the ChromeBooks). cheers, Matt On 7/2/2014 11:09 AM, ron minnich wrote: As always, when doing a new board

Re: [coreboot] coreboot hackaton/meeting in Prague - september 2014 - date shift?

2014-07-01 Thread ron minnich
I like that date, it fits really well with ELC. ron On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Rudolf Marek r.ma...@assembler.cz wrote: Hi all, What about 16 17 18 19 of October then? It is already in the university semester so there could be trouble with dormitory accommodation, but I think no

Re: [coreboot] coreboot hackaton/meeting in Prague - september 2014

2014-06-30 Thread ron minnich
Yeah, that's a great idea. ron On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:53 PM, David Hendricks dhend...@google.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Rudolf Marek r.ma...@assembler.cz wrote: Hi all, First of all sorry that it took so long to get back to this. I have in plan to organize a

Re: [coreboot] setting smbios values from the OS

2014-06-21 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Scott Duplichan sc...@notabs.org wrote: Putting the serial number in the same flash chip as the main firmware is a cost reduction measure used with desktop and other low cost boards. I have even seen a board where the MAC address lives there. The only

Re: [coreboot] setting smbios values from the OS

2014-06-21 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de wrote: In the end, I pose the question why a serial number must be exported to the OS in the first place - this looks like a potential privacy issue to me, while doing nothing for servicing the part (if it's sent back,

Re: [coreboot] Improvement of coreboot code (was: latest baytrail fsp on CRB)

2014-06-21 Thread ron minnich
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Karl-Heinz Nirschl kh.nirs...@gmail.com wrote: But anyway - the real statement of the message meant to be: thanks for all the good code. That's very kind of you. I think you are right about the code, it has improved a lot in the last couple years. ron --

Re: [coreboot] setting smbios values from the OS

2014-06-20 Thread ron minnich
realistically, though, it's hard for me to see how setting the serial # at firmware image build time scales. And setting it after boot makes no real sense either -- it's not really a serial number if you're changing it at that point. But some way to customize the binary images with a serial

Re: [coreboot] Intel native graphics init: Questions about GTT setup

2014-06-09 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Dear Ron, Please also note, that at least since Linux 3.11, Linux is not able anymore to set up graphics without the Video ROM or native graphics init. Unfortunately, nobody bisected this yet or notified

Re: [coreboot] Intel native graphics init: Questions about GTT setup: Decode error on Lenovo X60

2014-06-09 Thread ron minnich
It's painful and awful to do, but when you get that error, I suggest you mod the driver to hexdump the ENTIRE gtt. You need to see what's going on there. It's possible that somehow the gtt and gsm are living in the same place and the chipset is corrupting its own gtts. ron -- coreboot mailing

Re: [coreboot] Intel native graphics init: Questions about GTT setup: Decode error on Lenovo X60

2014-06-09 Thread ron minnich
BTW, as you'e seen, the data sheets are less than helpful. But the driver is usually worth looking at. My contact at Intel tells me he's not seeing what you're seeing, so we need a way to reproduce your setup and see what's going on. ron On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:15 AM, ron minnich rminn

Re: [coreboot] Intel native graphics init: Questions about GTT setup: Decode error on Lenovo X60

2014-06-09 Thread ron minnich
Folks, do I correctly understand this regression is X60-only? In that case, I suspect there will not be lots of interest in fixing it from the kernel side :-( sorry ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Intel native graphics init: Questions about GTT setup

2014-06-08 Thread ron minnich
Paul, many good questions. The problem is I did all this over 2 years ago and the answers won't be as good. Vladimir and Peter will likely do better. And, to reiterate, the 'replay attack' code for Link is not a good example of how to start graphics. It Just Worked, but not well. The second

Re: [coreboot] Intel native graphics init: Questions about GTT setup

2014-06-08 Thread ron minnich
Does anybody want to have a go at a further interpration of the errors? That would help. Does this error mean a present bit was not set, or the address was wrong, or ... ron On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Anthony Martin al...@pbrane.org wrote: Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net

Re: [coreboot] Intel FSP on Bayley Bay CRB: No output

2014-06-04 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Gerald Otter gerald.ot...@gmail.com wrote: Just for my own understanding; is it common for microcode loading to be required as part of the booting process, as opposed to being optional updates? Yes. Long ago, we let the kernel load microcode. Then, at some

Re: [coreboot] MB-A180 based design - First Light

2014-06-04 Thread ron minnich
Congrats! ron On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Mark C. Mason m...@edt.com wrote: We are running Linux from Coreboot this morning, after adding a bootable device on the SATA port. The USB boot devices were never seen, so more work to do there. Thank you for all your help! Best regards,

Re: [coreboot] Intel FSP on Bayley Bay CRB: No output

2014-06-04 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:59 AM, WANG FEI wangfei.ji...@gmail.com wrote: I thought microcode files are kind of patches for CPU, it suppose to be loaded before MRC just in case it fixes any issues related with CPU. I actually did encounter an system random halt issue related with no loading

Re: [coreboot] Intel FSP on Bayley Bay CRB: No output

2014-06-04 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Martin Roth martin.r...@se-eng.com wrote: There are a number of issues here: 3) The way that the microcode is currently being included is (to my understanding) completely against the Intel licensing. We're compiling a .h file with a license that says that

Re: [coreboot] Naming for identical chips with different model numbers due to different package variants

2014-06-02 Thread ron minnich
And never forget, no matter how many times we try to get this right, some vendor will come up with a way to break a naming scheme. Happens every time. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Naming for identical chips with different model numbers due to different package variants

2014-06-02 Thread ron minnich
Peter, I completely agree. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] IMB-A180 based design - help with post codes

2014-05-30 Thread ron minnich
I'd drop every other thing you're doing and get that usb debug port going. It will save your mind. But, yes, it seems you're getting pretty far. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] pre-2009 Coreboot-compatible laptops?

2014-05-29 Thread ron minnich
I thought you had to go further back than 2009 to get pre-AMT chipsets, was I wrong on that? ron On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Silkie Carlo silkieca...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I do hope you can help me! I am working on an infosec project at the moment, trying to fight the good

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread ron minnich
has anyone looked at camlistore as a starting point? Written in Go, which means it works on Plan 9. ron

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread ron minnich
I'm beginning to remember why I redirected this list to /dev/null. I think I'm going to resume. Enjoy your ever-shrinking place in the world, folks; it's clear that you enjoy it. It's also clear that nobody else cares any more. ron

Re: [coreboot] booting vxworks from linux BIOS

2014-05-22 Thread ron minnich
There was a time, quite some time ago, when somebody was booting vxworks from linuxbios, i.e. it was the payload. ron On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Stojsavljevic, Zoran zoran.stojsavlje...@intel.com wrote: Hello Peter, I'll try to find answers to these questions. I might even myself build

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-20 Thread ron minnich
I have a different perspective. There are millions of chromebooks out there updating all the time, from the firmware to the kernel to the root file system to everything. It all works. If you are telling me that the upgrade technology of Plan 9 can not handle an automatic upgrade, fine; we have

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-20 Thread ron minnich
Ah well, back to 'm' for this thread, and I now accept that this community is unwilling to solve this simple problem, as so many others have. Bummer. ron

Re: [coreboot] Booting an EFI OS

2014-05-20 Thread ron minnich
I certainly like seeing the words 'mortem' and 'EFI' in the same email ;-) -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-19 Thread ron minnich
I've been watching the discussion but was hesitant to jump in. But somebody asked me to say a thing or two. We put the nsec() system call into NxM because, any way you cut it, it provides better accuracy than the open/read/close path, particularly when there's lots of stuff running, and the apps

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-19 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Charles Forsyth charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: Jitter says something about (in)consistency of time periods or intervals. It will be a function of scheduling decisions, not the overhead of a single call. In Nix, on an AP core, sure, because there isn't any

Re: [9fans] waitfree

2014-05-19 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:05 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: the documentation appears not to cover this completely. Hmm. You put documentation and completely in the same sentence. Agents are converging on your house. Run! There's always an undocumented progress engine

[9fans] linking a program to run at a high address

2014-05-15 Thread ron minnich
I've done this, and I've forgotten how. I need to tell 6l to link a program to run at 0x7f00 I've tried various combos of -T, -R, and -D and am failing to get the right result ... any hints to revive my poor memory would be welcome. ron

Re: [9fans] linking a program to run at a high address

2014-05-15 Thread ron minnich
you need to give more credit to the compiler :-) the address I'm using is in the low half of the address space. But I'll wait for Charles to weigh in and tell us what's what. ron

Re: [coreboot] Booting an EFI OS

2014-05-14 Thread ron minnich
what's an EFI OS? ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] PIC instead of APIC mode for KolibriOS - mouse fix

2014-05-13 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:29 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: That's an important question, but I believe the answer is no. That's all I wanted to know, to start. So why don't we just get that CL in and see where we go from there. Thanks all. And sorry if I was too hard on kolibrios.

Re: [coreboot] PIC instead of APIC mode for KolibriOS - mouse fix

2014-05-12 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Why shouldn't coreboot do legacy initialization? What is the reason to be *less* compatible than possible? The main question I had was whether enabling this set of interrupts could negatively impact other payloads. The goal of

Re: [coreboot] PIC instead of APIC mode for KolibriOS - mouse fix

2014-05-12 Thread ron minnich
Like I say, if it's not going to do harm, and you all want it, submit the CL. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

[9fans] what arch

2014-05-09 Thread ron minnich
somebody referred me to the discussion. Sometimes we found people wanted to build on their existing OS (Linux, OSX, whatever) in a cross-build way, and, further, didn't want to do that in a VM, because they had tools they liked. github.com/rminnich/NxM is the last snapshot of the Sandia/BL fork,

Re: [9fans] what arch

2014-05-09 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Bakul Shah ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: Full plan9 *native* build of the kernel, libs and bin on a /RapsberryPi/ is about 4 minutes GOOD. Why not have a web page? The great plan 9 build shootout. Nobody would be happier than me if Linux always lost. ron

Re: [9fans] what arch

2014-05-09 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Charles Forsyth charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2014 21:37, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: under the Inferno license for that matter that's usually MIT Yeah. Either 3 clause BSD or MIT work. Many others don't. So whichever one of those

[coreboot] FSP, SNB, and a new board

2014-05-09 Thread ron minnich
How good is the FSP code with a new board? I have an SNB board and I'm curious as to how much blood will be on the walls if I try to use an FSB-based coreboot image with it. SNB = my weird way of saying sandybridge ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] FSP, SNB, and a new board

2014-05-09 Thread ron minnich
Oh no, I don't want to try FSP, I just want to do the thing that's the least work for me, and it sounds like Google mrc.bin is what I want, since I know where to find it :-) Thanks ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] coreboot at the LinuxTag 2014 in Berlin: Visit our booth at the community day this Saturday!

2014-05-09 Thread ron minnich
Sorry to miss it! Take many pictures! ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] The Novena Open Laptop + Coreboot?

2014-05-08 Thread ron minnich
IT will probably run u-boot, so free is solved. But, wow, I think the price to what-you-get ratio on that thing is not attractive. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] PIC instead of APIC mode for KolibriOS - mouse fix

2014-05-07 Thread ron minnich
So, how would these changes affect other payloads? ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] PIC instead of APIC mode for KolibriOS - mouse fix

2014-05-07 Thread ron minnich
Thanks, that's a great explanation. Generally, we've tried to avoid too much hardware setup in coreboot; that's the job of the kernel. I'm not really happy that we're doing all this PIC setup for one OS, written in assembly. It's been quite some time since I've had to use PIC mode at all. Why

Re: [coreboot] New addendums to INTEL FSP family (ron minnich)

2014-05-05 Thread ron minnich
Jiming, why doesn't intel just put that more open stuff up on github and be done with it? ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Life hack #37: how to make a great touchpad

2014-05-03 Thread ron minnich
well, you may not like the missing trackpoint, but a couple million chromebook and macbook users are doing just fine. It's all about the numbers. ron On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Stefan Tauner stefan.tau...@alumni.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Alex, you have missed something very important here: 0:

[coreboot] USB tick in SMM?

2014-04-29 Thread ron minnich
Anybody out there know typical numbers for the timer tick if USB is active as part of SMM? I just heard one number for one product line, 8 HZ. We're seeing a mysterious 18 HZ tick on one system. Any other numbers people know? thanks ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] Life hack #37: how to make a great touchpad

2014-04-21 Thread ron minnich
well, as long as we're off topic, the El Patron restaurant in Albuquerque was quite good. And it looks like the new Fit is a great car, although I still think the 2007 model year had more of a road feel. Oh, wait, what mailing list is this again? I thought it was the ~coreboot list. ron --

Re: [coreboot] Life hack #37: how to make a great touchpad

2014-04-21 Thread ron minnich
coreboot on chromebooks are very on topic. Track pad drivers for Linux, or the trackpad firmware, or the trackpad vendor, or the algorithms used, or the fact that you made this comment in such a way that nobody from the trackpad group will see it, or that it's pretty rude on top of that, not so

Re: [coreboot] Bug in your code

2014-04-18 Thread ron minnich
Can somebody give me a sanity check? I can't see the error with the macro. I won't say too much here -- just take a look. I'm not convinced the code is wrong. thanks ron On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 7:39 AM, WANG FEI wangfei.ji...@gmail.com wrote: Ronald, I just noticed a bug in your code, I've

Re: [coreboot] Bug in your code

2014-04-18 Thread ron minnich
Still not seeing it. I think the order should be ' ', 'S', 'S', 'B' not ' ', 'B'','S','S' or 'B','S','S',' ' i.e. space is the high order byte. ron On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Nico Huber nic...@gmx.de wrote: On 18.04.2014 16:49, ron minnich wrote: Can somebody give me a sanity

Re: [coreboot] Bug in your code

2014-04-18 Thread ron minnich
Which of course means my code IS wrong, but the suggested fix is wrong too I think. ron On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:34 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: Still not seeing it. I think the order should be ' ', 'S', 'S', 'B' not ' ', 'B'','S','S' or 'B','S','S',' ' i.e. space

Re: [coreboot] Bug in your code

2014-04-18 Thread ron minnich
Fooey. Now they all look wrong. I think the macro maybe should be defined as makemagic(b0,b1,b2,b3) the thing I can't figure out is why this ever worked. OK, off to the dentist, ... ron On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:34 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: Which of course means my code

Re: [coreboot] Bug in your code

2014-04-18 Thread ron minnich
. On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Aaron Durbin adur...@chromium.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:49 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: Can somebody give me a sanity check? I can't see the error with the macro. I won't say too much here -- just take a look. I'm not convinced

Re: [coreboot] Blog post by Scott D.: Small Integers: Big Penalty

2014-04-17 Thread ron minnich
Paul, very nice, thanks. It's not real surprising, actually, at least in my old scientific computing world. Since that is AMD code, maybe we can get the guys who wrote it to read that nice book written by AMD :-) ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] So, you want to try coreboot? Here are a few hints

2014-04-12 Thread ron minnich
And a little warning here. This is the PC business, and the version control on hardware is just terrible. So, you may have a board called the blackrock m23551-rev 3/Z, and somebody else may have the blackrock m23551-rev 3/Z, and they may be utterly different, because you bought yours on a

Re: [coreboot] Wyse S10 Geode GX2

2014-04-09 Thread ron minnich
I'm a huge fan of tinycore. So, could we ever have tinycore in flash? Man that would be nice. Talk about instant on! ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

[coreboot] AMD doesn't get it either in some ways

2014-04-04 Thread ron minnich
I have this nice board, with a nice AMD cpu, and I get no graphics. Why? Because AMD won't release the VGA blob. So the board is headless. Another addition to the blob matrix. sigh. It's really not that just one vendor is bad and one is good. AMD has its issues too. It's a wonder I have any

Re: [coreboot] AMD doesn't get it either in some ways (the bastards!!!)

2014-04-04 Thread ron minnich
Now, there's no need to be that mean, ok? AMD are not bad guys in my view. But they have made some seriously boneheaded decisions, and locking up the VGA bios is one of them. We can't get anywhere calling people names like this. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] AMD doesn't get it either in some ways (the bastards!!!)

2014-04-04 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:28 PM, mrnuke mr.nuke...@gmail.com wrote: That's just a reference to South Park. Which would be fine if everyone on this list was a native English speaker and knew what South Park was. Else, they could naturally take offense, so please keep that in mind. While I think

Re: [coreboot] AMD doesn't get it either in some ways (the bastards!!!)

2014-04-04 Thread ron minnich
And here's where we thank Intel, btw. They've done a truly wonderful job of getting code into the Linux kernel that I was able to use to open up chipset init for sandybridge, ivybridge, and haswell, A tip of the hat to Intel and Jesse Barnes especially for all they've done in that area. So let's

Re: [coreboot] New addendums to INTEL FSP family

2014-04-02 Thread ron minnich
This license still looks problematical to me. Couple that with the fact that the Haswell MRC is still not generally available from Intel and I'm a bit concerned. If I build a coreboot image with FSP, am I allowed to put it on dropbox for others to try out? Not clear at all! And, one backup copy?

Re: [coreboot] New addendums to INTEL FSP family

2014-04-02 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:38 AM, mrnuke mr.nuke...@gmail.com wrote: That is a clear attempt to circumvent the wishes of the rightsholders to this project. That part I believe you are missing here is that this is a balancing act. The vendors are rightsholders too. They have knowledge we need.

Re: [coreboot] New addendums to INTEL FSP family

2014-04-02 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:15 AM, mrnuke mr.nuke...@gmail.com wrote: $ git grep -i intel |grep -i copyright |grep -v microcode Point being? ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] New addendums to INTEL FSP family

2014-04-02 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:17 AM, David Hubbard david.c.hubbard+coreb...@gmail.com wrote: Could the two interested parties negotiate a compromise? In my mind that's Google calling Intel, and they talk it over. That probably just demonstrates how little I understand about who and what is

Re: [coreboot] ThinkPad T60p coreboot config file

2014-03-31 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Thom Lauret opentho...@me.com wrote: That disassembly is required to identify the flash chip is going to slow coreboot adoption. um, what? ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

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